![]() ![]() Take her from her comfort zone by denying her the everyday certainties that sustain her. Take the protagonist, usually a woman, and take her supports away from her. She describes her general process as follows: ![]() The connotations are almost always pleasant-childhood memories of freedom or establishing a better connection with nature or, for adults, stressless vacation time.Īs one would guess, Henry’s books are not tragedies they have some variety of happy ending, but it has to be earned. ![]() During counseling, if the patient is advised to close his eyes and go to his happy place, that happy place is likely to be a beach somewhere. But many are literally set in beach towns, usually small. Henry’s books are sometimes termed “beach novels,” that is, books meant to be read at leisure, on vacation. The bookstore store becomes a kind of modern general store. There is a bookstore here and in the 2009 novel “Driftwood Summer,” a place where characters gather to talk in book discussion groups or just sit and talk. Henry is a fan of the independent bookstore, as many contemporary writers are, but she goes farther and puts the bookstore in the novels. Her books are highly readable stories of family life, the relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children and quite often between siblings, especially sisters. Patti Callahan Henry, of Mountain Brook, Alabama, is a seasoned, professional writer of popular fiction, the author of 12 previous novels, several of them best-sellers. ![]()
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